“Welcome to my party,” the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez said at the Met Gala on Monday night, wearing a sheer, gem-encrusted Schiaparelli gown whose sculptural neckline splashed beyond her collarbones.
It was her first time as a co-chair of the event, but her 14th trip up the Met steps. “I think I retire tonight,” she during Vogue’s livestream.
Ms. Lopez, the triple threat who in 2001 simultaneously held a No. 1 album (“J.Lo”) and a No. 1 movie (“The Wedding Planner”), chronicled her staying power in a film released in February: “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.” (Critics found it baffling.)
Ms. Lopez was one of the early arrivals to the gala, which is a fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. This year’s event raised about $26 million for the museum’s self-funding fashion wing.
Ms. Lopez’s gown, designed by Daniel Roseberry, was embroidered with silver pearls and over two million silver foil beads that took 800 hours of hand embroidery to complete, according to Schiaparelli. It was inspired by a butterfly, nodding to the evening’s dress code, “The Garden of Time.”
Her look was part of a trend toward sheer dresses on the red carpet, including those worn by Doja Cat, Rita Ora and Emily Ratajkowski. Ms. Lopez was concealed by strains of sparkling beading that converged around her legs and torso.
Ms. Lopez made her first appearance at the event in 1999. Her ensembles at past Met galas have had no shortage of drama: a black velvet and ballet pink halter dress by Ralph Lauren with evening gloves and a netted fascinator (2023); a sweeping, baby blue Valentino cape (2017); a red Versace number with a beaded dragon that strategically revealed glimpses of skin (2015).
But none have topped the plunging, jungle-green gown she wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards as her most memorable red-carpet look. Public interest in the look was so intense that it inspired Google executives to add an image search function.
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